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Douglas Coupland

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
— Douglas Coupland time
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
— Douglas Coupland chaos
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
— Douglas Coupland great
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
— Douglas Coupland time
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
— Douglas Coupland being
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
— Douglas Coupland religion
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
— Douglas Coupland truth
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
— Douglas Coupland risk
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
— Douglas Coupland courage
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
— Douglas Coupland people
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
— Douglas Coupland love
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
— Douglas Coupland knowledge
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
— Douglas Coupland failure
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
— Douglas Coupland love
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
— Douglas Coupland art
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
— Douglas Coupland life
Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
— Douglas Coupland living
Every single moment is a coincidence.
— Douglas Coupland men
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
— Douglas Coupland lonely
Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
— Douglas Coupland technology
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
— Douglas Coupland sex
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
— Douglas Coupland
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.
— Douglas Coupland people
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
— Douglas Coupland wise
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.
— Douglas Coupland life
Adventure without risk is like Disneyland.
— Douglas Coupland risk
Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.
— Douglas Coupland love
My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
— Douglas Coupland love

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